Sentences with phrase «after the next election»

The new timetable for franchises pushes most new decisions back until after the next election.

In the longer run, both parties are talking up a centre - Left coalition after the next election.

The steps taken by the party over the coming weeks could determine whether it can actually recover or whether it will join the list of conservative fringe parties after the next election.

The population seems divided as to who will lead the country after the next election, but most people appear fed up with the entire political system.

Protect them completely, and protect schools, and every other area of spending will have to fall by 16 % in the three years after the next election.

Many analysts have warned that taxes may have to rise after the next election, expected, in 2010, due to the recession.

One point eight million television views tune in to watch the three men vying to be chancellor after the next election clash over the public deficit, taxation policy and spending cuts.

Even if there is a Conservative victory after the next election, it will have taken 13 years to return to government.

Even today, he was insisting there was a chance of it being carried through after the next election.

If our politics do not function properly after the next election then the only answer to our problems will be found on the streets.

Both parties agreed to work to enact the proposals, especially after the next election.

Will he manage to remain in the post after the next election?

This would provide Labour with a credible cabinet team after the next election.

If there is a Lib - Lab partnership after the next election, expect electoral reform to be back on the agenda.

Hard to see similar factors playing after the next election.

And he is open about the fact that he approaches the issues from a more left - leaning perspective, something that might come in handy after the next election.

There is the outside possibility that things could change dramatically after the next election.

Having been elected on promises that may not take effect until after the next election, the government must show a real commitment to achieving those goals.

The think tanks warned that whoever is chancellor after the next election will probably have to raise taxes straight away.

The Liberal Democrats must be part of a coalition government after the next election to stop the Conservatives or Labour «messing up», says leader Nick Clegg.

However, he could return to Parliament after the next election if a Conservative MP were willing to give up their seat for him, triggering a by - election.

It's happening at an almost glacial pace, but the Conservative party are finally starting to wake up to the likelihood that Ed Miliband will be prime minister after the next election.

Regular readers will recall that the Magic Number — the difference between the number of Conservative and Labour seats in the House of Commons, and therefore the combined number of net Tory losses and net Labour gains needed for the parties to have the same number of MPs after the next election — is 46.

Other Tory MPs said that they would oust Speaker Bercow once they had a Commons majority after the next election.

While he may have been trying to keep the Coalition together, it has — if the situation doesn't change — made that same Coalition (let alone a Tory majority) less likely after the next election.

The pessimism about the last week means declining confidence that the Conservatives will still be in power after the next election...

These arguments matter to anybody with an interest in progressive politics because the winners will be dictating policy after the next election if — oh, lets drop the pretence — when the Conservatives win.

Passing the commitment through the House of Commons after the next election may prove a somewhat trickier ask.

Here's Mayor Bloomberg's first Daily Show appearance in eight years, during which he swiped at upstate («you can't even get a bagel») and the Legislature (for taxing sliced bagels) and discussed the mosque controversy, which he says «will go away right after the next election.»

In October, in the aftermath of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers and the UK's government banking bailout, our poll gave Brown a massive «Churchillian» lead, but saw Cameron as top choice for PM after the next election.

David Cameron gave Conservative MPs «a very strong indication» at the recent Parliamentary Party meeting that he wants to introduce legislation before 2015 for his planned EU referendum after the next election.

If Jo Swinson beats the odds to hold her East Dunbartonshire seat, she would stand a very good chance — on her own merits, but also because the party is embarrassed by its lack of women MPs, and likely to be more so after the next election (though chances are the Farron or Lamb teams will try to sign her up to a «dream ticket» as deputy leader).

After all, if the Conservatives want to ditch the Lib Dems after the next election, they will need to steal their voters.

On CBC this morning mentioned that one of his «selling points» is his understanding of constitutional issues, which would be helpful if we end up with a minority government again after the next election.

Another MP said: «Dozens of ex-Labour MPs will be looking for work after the next election, given the predicted scale of our defeat.

Let's remember that our current crop of women MPs are younger than their male counterparts - after the next election there will no female equivalents of the grand old men of the backbenches (Clarke, Tapsell, Hogg, Young, Winterton, Spicer, Shepherd, etc.) except for Ann Winterton.

Depending on who you believe, David Cameron is either preparing to withdraw benefits from wealthy pensioners after the next election, or is set to pledge to ring - fence them again.

Instead, Mr Clegg said he would work with whichever party has the most seats in a hung parliament - an increasingly likely prospect after the next election.

However, clearly our tantric prime minister knows better — this morning David Cameron finally delivered his «jinxed» speech on Europe, committing Britain to an in - out referendum soon after the next election.

[11] Some parties (Liberal Democrats pledge to keep Britain in the EU after next election) are already clear about this, but unfortunately not all.

And outside the event a Labour blogger mutters that the Lib Dems could end up with only 11 seats after the next election on current polling (and if they don't get AV through)... so the whole question could end up being academic.

Their political strength and high approval ratings will make it difficult for the next PC leader and whoever becomes the premier after the next election to ignore the concerns of urban Albertans.

If he is not retiring, one rumour I heard today suggests that Mr. Zwozdesky may seek re-election and challenge Speaker Ken Kowalski for his position in the Assembly after the next election.

Ann Widdicombe is set to retire after the next election, swapping Westminster for walks in Devon.